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The Massachusetts girls working in this place did not have it easy. They faced six day work weeks and grueling conditions.
Who were the Lowell Mill Girls
Caused by the Tariff of 1828, and showcasing a battle between the states and the federal government, it almost led to southern secession.
What is the nullification crisis
Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territories from this French leader in 1803
Who is Napoleon
Her book galvanized anti-slavery sentiment and was said to have even made British Queen Victoria weep
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
The president of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
This graduate of Brown University rose to be Massachusetts' secretary of education. He campaigned for better school houses, longer school years and expanded curriculums.
Who is Horace Mann
This case ruled that slaves were property and thus not protected by the constitution.
What is the Dred Scott case
The defeat of these two Native leaders defeat during the War of 1812 opened up the old Northwest to American expansion
What are Tecumseh and Prophet
This group supported the Wilmot Proviso and the banning of slavery in the territories
What is the Wilmot Proviso
Place where abolitionist John Brown led his final raid.
This State's entrance into the union was delayed because of their practice of Polygamy
What is Utah
The line of latitude and longitude established by the Missouri Compromise
What is the fugitive slave law
This is the line of latitude and longitude, that Polk was willing to brawl over
What is 54'40
This group of Westerners did not take kindly to anti-slavery activists in Kansas
Who are the boarder Ruffians
According to Northerners, the most contentious provision of the Compromise of 1850.
She was a physically frail but morally strong. She travelled nearly 60,000 miles in 8 years to put together her report on insane asylums in the mid 19th century
Who was Dorothea Dix
From the outset the US government grappled with slavery through legal measures. This was one of the first ways laws to ban slavery in the US.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This law tried forbid slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso
These two presidents avoided annexing Texas because the question of slavery was too contentious
Who were Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren
This man argued that Slavery was a positive good
Who is John C. Calhoun
This man would go on to influence leaders like Martin Luther King Jr with his ideas on Civil Disobedience. He once said " when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves...I think that it is not to soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize
Who is Henry David Thoreau
No matter how the Supreme Court ruled, slavery would stay down if people voted it down, argued Stephen Douglas in this doctrine
What is the Freeport Doctrine
This secretary of state negotiated the treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo but was promptly fired when he returned to the US. Turns out President Polk wanted more land
Who is Nicholas Trist
Where Preston Brooks, a Representative from South Carolina, beat Charles Sumner, a Republican from Massachusetts, unconscious with a metal-tipped cane in 1856.
The floor of the US Senate
Name the four candidates of the election of 1860